Hexasaturnalis tetraspinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HexasaturnalisPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 6.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 168.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 182.9 Mya to 165.3 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 20 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 19 of 20 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic183–183 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 2 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 2 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 2 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 2 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 2 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 2 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 2 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174.7 Mya168.6 Mya183.4 Mya164.8 Mya

20 occurrences of Hexasaturnalis tetraspinus on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

20 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Camarena — 37.57°N, 3.50°WPotami — 37.73°N, 23.02°EKaramba — 34.32°N, 76.23°E

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The named rock units Hexasaturnalis tetraspinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hexasaturnalis tetraspinus and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Hexasaturnalis tetraspinus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

222 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Hexasaturnalis tetraspinus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

7 references

Each of the 20 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Hexasaturnalis tetraspinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hexasaturnalis tetraspinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hexasaturnalis tetraspinus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHexasaturnalis through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Yao 1972)